You pour some Sauvignon Blanc for your date only to realize there were a few drops left. You keep it cool, there is another bottle chilling in the fridge. You know what to do: the bottle goes in the recycling bin and the cork…

If you’ve been there, you know what the dilemma is: can you compost a cork? In that case, should you be getting wines with a natural cork as opposed to a synthetic one? What about the tress chopped down to make natural corks?

Don’t worry. ABC Fine Wine & Spirits is here to help by setting up 1,500 cork collection boxes across its Florida stores.

Two recycling companies will turn the collected wood and synthetic corks into floor and wall tiles, car engine gaskets, fishing rod handles and other things that will later be sold at stores like Target.

In addition, ABC will donate 2 pennies per cork to several charities it works with (mention this to your date for extra points).

Sure, there might be some marketing and sales incentive here, but you have to give them credit for doing something about the corks. If all the other wine sellers follow, even better! Find an ABC location close to you here.

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